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This stick and wreath they call their 'Palm Paschen, which really means Palm-Sunday, and may have been so called because they make the wreath on that day. Down the village streets they go, singing all the while and waving the wreath above their heads: Palm, Palm Paschen, Hei koekerei. Weldra is het Paschen Dan hebben wy een ei. Een ei twee ei, Het derde is het Paschei.

The carts are of iron, but resemble in form certain hand-wagons which one sees every day being pulled and pushed through the streets by bare-limbed Japanese labourers, chanting always the same melancholy alternating chorus, Haidak! hei! haidah hei!

His own men were now between the position and Ali Wad Hei's shouting fanatics. They would be able to reach and defend the post in time. He turned and gave orders. There were only twenty men besides the two pashas, whom his commands also comprised. Two small guns were in place. He had them trained on that portion of the advancing infantry of Ali Wad Hei not yet covered by his own forces.

"If he understood her as well as you understand the song of the birds!" Siegfried has an inspiration. Those last words of Hagen's contain the germ of it. "Hei! Gunther!" he calls to the blood-brother, who appears so sorely in need of cheering: "You melancholy fellow! If you will thank me for it, I will sing you tales from the days of my youth!" Gunther's reply is politely encouraging.

"So many! I would not have put the estimate half so high. Not bad for a dark race fighting for they know not what!" "They know that all right; they are fighting for you, Saadat." David seemed not to hear. "Five hundred so many, and the enemy so near, the temptation so great." "The deserters are all gone to Ali Wad Hei, Saadat. For a month there have been only the deserted."

Well! things must be as they may, as says that great philosopher Corporal Nym. Reached Edinburgh at nine o'clock. Found, among less interesting letters, two from Lord Northampton on the death of the poor Marchioness, and from Anna Jane Clephane on the same melancholy topic. Hei mihi! June 10. Corrected proofs, prepared some copy, and did all that was right.

The nuptials at the church were preceded by a triumphal procession of the bride and groom in an automobile, with a score of other cars following, the entire party gorgeously adorned with wreaths, hei in Tahitian, and the vehicles lavishly decorated with sugar-cane and bamboo tassels.

"Hei! father, don't drink up all the water, or there will be a bad harvest." This humorous exclamation referred to a group of persons who were displaying a very original activity. A number of naked laborers were holding a man by the legs and plunging him head first in the water to his neck, to his breast, and at last to his waist.

But when the first thinning of the mists began, when the sun began to dissipate the rolling haze, Ali Wad Hei and his rebel sheikhs were suddenly startled by rifle-fire at close quarters, by confused noises, and the jar and roar of battle. Now the reason for the firing of the great guns was plain. The noise was meant to cover the advance of David's men.

That created such consternation that several of us considered backing out. We were all to meet at the Pei Hei Gate at two o'clock, so we started early, for we had a long distance to travel.